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Family: Moraceae	Genus: Ficus	Species: Ficus auriculata Lour.( तिमला )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Ficus macrophylla Roxb., F. roxburghii Wall. ex Miq., F. pomifera Wall. ex King.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Phagoora, Timla, Trembal	Flower Type	Hypanthodium
English / Trade Name	Elephant Ear Fig	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Timla	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Outer Himalaya ascending up to 2,000 m	Fruit Type	Syconium
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Figs obconic with longitudinal ridges, 3.5-5.5 cm across, pubescent when young, red purple on ripening, in short thick panicualte clusters, on the trunk and larger branches.
Habitat	Ravines, river banks, edges of crop fields as an important agroforestry tree	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	India (Outer Himalaya ascending up to 2,000 m, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa, Sikkim, South India, W. Bengal), Bangladesh, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan to S. China, Th	Bark Details	Grey-warty
Distribution in Haryana	Morni-Pinjore, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Cordate
Description of Species	Subdeciduous, spreading trees, to 10 m high; bark grey-warty. Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, 12-32 x 10-28 cm, cordate or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, green, pubescent beneath; basal nerves 6-7. Figs obconic with longitudinal ridges, 3.5-5.5 cm across, pubescent when young, red purple on ripening, in short thick panicualte clusters, on the trunk and larger branches. Basal bracats 3, triangular-ovate, small; orifice sunken and covered by 6-triangular apical bracts.	Leaf Details	Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, 12-32 x 10-28 cm, cordate or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, green, pubescent beneath; basal nerves 6-7.

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